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Quotes About Pain

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.
~ Harold S. Kushner
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
~ Jack Kornfield
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
~ Albrecht Durer
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
~ Toni Morrison
Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.
~ Charles Issawi
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
~ Pablo Neruda
Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.
~ Robbie Williams
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
My life has been nothing but a failure.
~ Claude Monet
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
~ Josh McDowell
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
~ Aeschylus
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
~ Aeschylus
Life is, of course, terrible.
~ Anthony Burgess
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
~ Gerald Massey
I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
~ Haruki Murakami
Life bites like a dog.
~ Janusz Korczak
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
~ Jessica Lange
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
~ William Blake
Life is beautiful and living is pain.
~ Hunter S. Thompson